Bartleby, the Scrivener
@shrike.seattle.wa.us
The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. -- Utah Phillips
Now in zone 9a!
http://shrike.seattle.wa.us (Intermittently)
Now in zone 9a!
http://shrike.seattle.wa.us (Intermittently)
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I'm Michael, I live in Seattle and I tinker. I like retro computers, amateur radio, cycling, gardening, mycology and sturdy midcentury office furniture. I currently serve as the trustee for one of the oldest Amateur Radio Clubs in the world, W7YD at the University of Washington.
I'm Michael, I live in Seattle and I tinker. I like retro computers, amateur radio, cycling, gardening, mycology and sturdy midcentury office furniture. I currently serve as the trustee for one of the oldest Amateur Radio Clubs in the world, W7YD at the University of Washington.
I grew up in the cult of Evangelicalism. It has taken me years to disentangle those beliefs from my own values. This article hits a point I think I have had a really hard time internalizing: that the Evangelical (compared to other denominations) focus on individual salvation is a toxic Heresy.
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I grew up in the cult of Evangelicalism. It has taken me years to disentangle those beliefs from my own values. This article hits a point I think I have had a really hard time internalizing: that the Evangelical (compared to other denominations) focus on individual salvation is a toxic Heresy.
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NO FUCKING WILDFIRES IN OREGON THIS SUMMER. carry a shovel and a bucket of water with you on hikes and if you see somebody with a firecracker hit him with the shovel and drown him in the bucket
January 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NO FUCKING WILDFIRES IN OREGON THIS SUMMER. carry a shovel and a bucket of water with you on hikes and if you see somebody with a firecracker hit him with the shovel and drown him in the bucket
This is a flashback. The Salt Lake County Library version of this system was called LUCAS
I'm interested in it because it's used with the Dynix Automated Library System, used by a ton of libraries in the 80s and 90s. It's currently not available in any form (but I'm working on it)
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is a flashback. The Salt Lake County Library version of this system was called LUCAS
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maybe i’ve become inured to trash but i feel like people are overreacting
someone give me a link or stfu
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
maybe i’ve become inured to trash but i feel like people are overreacting
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wait, THAT’S what everyone was freaking out about? y’all wouldn’t have lasted five seconds on USENET
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
wait, THAT’S what everyone was freaking out about? y’all wouldn’t have lasted five seconds on USENET
There are more trees on planet Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and it's not even close.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There are more trees on planet Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and it's not even close.
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Nabbed a few storage bins for the space. Unsure if this is enough to accommodate all member projects at a typical hackerspace.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nabbed a few storage bins for the space. Unsure if this is enough to accommodate all member projects at a typical hackerspace.
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RAX: *texting* you are the fire of my soul. the dessert moon over my lush oasis.
RICK STEVES: *replying* okay. a beautiful night here in prague
RICK STEVES: *replying* okay. a beautiful night here in prague
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
RAX: *texting* you are the fire of my soul. the dessert moon over my lush oasis.
RICK STEVES: *replying* okay. a beautiful night here in prague
RICK STEVES: *replying* okay. a beautiful night here in prague
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AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
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Blinking bike lights are fine, get over it.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Blinking bike lights are fine, get over it.
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for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying
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Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982
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Calling all commodore 1084S-P aficionados. How do I know which chassis I have for the flyback? I don't see a label anywhere
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Calling all commodore 1084S-P aficionados. How do I know which chassis I have for the flyback? I don't see a label anywhere
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knives out is the perfect ‘have it on in the background’ movie bc if you’ve seen it once you can mostly ignore and you still get occasional gems like toni collette saying “i read a tweet about a new yorker article about you, you’re famous!”
October 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
knives out is the perfect ‘have it on in the background’ movie bc if you’ve seen it once you can mostly ignore and you still get occasional gems like toni collette saying “i read a tweet about a new yorker article about you, you’re famous!”
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Do I know any Portland folks looking for a PVM? 14" 14M2U. Was my first nice CRT, has been gathering dust for years now. Free to friend or friend of friend if you hit me up this afternoon; otherwise I'm listing it on Craigslist tomorrow (ugh). You come pick it up. DM me!
April 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Do I know any Portland folks looking for a PVM? 14" 14M2U. Was my first nice CRT, has been gathering dust for years now. Free to friend or friend of friend if you hit me up this afternoon; otherwise I'm listing it on Craigslist tomorrow (ugh). You come pick it up. DM me!
What were your best thrift/estate sale finds? I once got a 4-point Hudson Bay blanket at goodwill for $25. Also, on a whim one time I picked up a pair of binoculars at an estate sale for $18 that turned out to be mil-spec Fujinon Marine binoculars that sell for $800-$900 new.
There's no better feeling that picking up a neat thing at an estate sale then searching online to find out it's worth many times more than you paid.
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What were your best thrift/estate sale finds? I once got a 4-point Hudson Bay blanket at goodwill for $25. Also, on a whim one time I picked up a pair of binoculars at an estate sale for $18 that turned out to be mil-spec Fujinon Marine binoculars that sell for $800-$900 new.
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an interesting thread in ian toll's pacific war trilogy is that the feared japanese zero was not the vastly superior fighter plane that i have been led to believe it was and american pilots adapted to its nimbleness a lot sooner than i thought, and well before better american planes arrived
![“Zeros flew high cover over the G4Ms, but they were often positioned too far behind the bombers to interfere with the Wildcats’ initial diving attacks. Day after day, the Zeros entered the fray only after the Americans had sent several bombers down in flames. Joe Foss, a marine fighter ace, scratched his head at the tactics employed by his Japanese counterparts. Most were obviously highly skilled, but they failed to adapt to changing tactics and became predictable: “They tried the same thing all the time.”30 The Americans had long since learned to avoid “chasing tails” with the quick and maneuverable Zeros, and did not hesitate to dive out of a dogfight if the enemy gained an advantage. Foss praised the sturdy construction of the F4F and noted that many Americans claimed aerial victories after their planes had been shot up. “We were hit with Japanese cannons as well as their machine guns,” he said. “This was unable to knock us down unless it happened to hit the oil cooler or some oil line or gas line in the motor. On a head-on run at each other, we would usually blast the opponent out of the sky and[…]”
Excerpt From
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (Pacific War Trilogy)
Ian W. Toll](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3vyl2i7k2fuk7lbnmlxh3vof/bafkreihzzckozljkjhmahjfblm5nk6o62yivzk2bghtmlqr73gg3k27y2a@jpeg)
April 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
an interesting thread in ian toll's pacific war trilogy is that the feared japanese zero was not the vastly superior fighter plane that i have been led to believe it was and american pilots adapted to its nimbleness a lot sooner than i thought, and well before better american planes arrived
LMAO "Ballardization" is back, baby!
Today at the Seattle Council Comp Plan committee: Queen Anne residents pushing against additional density in their neighborhood via the cautionary tale of...Ballard.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
April 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
LMAO "Ballardization" is back, baby!
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Morpheus (UT99)
April 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Morpheus (UT99)
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i do think it would be nice for more gardeners to put their USDA zone or comparable in their bios simply to avoid bumming each other out when posting impossibly early strawberries etc. we're a boastful and jealous lot and we need data data data
April 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
i do think it would be nice for more gardeners to put their USDA zone or comparable in their bios simply to avoid bumming each other out when posting impossibly early strawberries etc. we're a boastful and jealous lot and we need data data data
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Tidying up my piece on Rod Canion/Compaq.
Includes this little nugget of absolute shenanigans which I think most people in computing still don't realise happened.
If you were a PC clone company buying MS DOS after 1982 to bundle with your machine, you were getting one version back of Compaq DOS.
Includes this little nugget of absolute shenanigans which I think most people in computing still don't realise happened.
If you were a PC clone company buying MS DOS after 1982 to bundle with your machine, you were getting one version back of Compaq DOS.
April 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tidying up my piece on Rod Canion/Compaq.
Includes this little nugget of absolute shenanigans which I think most people in computing still don't realise happened.
If you were a PC clone company buying MS DOS after 1982 to bundle with your machine, you were getting one version back of Compaq DOS.
Includes this little nugget of absolute shenanigans which I think most people in computing still don't realise happened.
If you were a PC clone company buying MS DOS after 1982 to bundle with your machine, you were getting one version back of Compaq DOS.
Happy Ruination Day, everyone.
April 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Ruination Day, everyone.
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Tony Soprano: You kicked Miette. Dat’s gotta be resolved.
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tony Soprano: You kicked Miette. Dat’s gotta be resolved.
Post a warning
April 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Post a warning